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Take a look at these creative templates for brochures, flyers, newsletters, stationery, postcards, ads, menus and posters for a variety of businesses. If you're faced with time limitations, budget constraints or simply need new creative ideas, let these designs do the work.
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IMAGE UTILITIES : GRAPHICS SHAREWARE / SOFTWARE FREE
Abacre Photo Downloader (Free to Try, $30 to Buy, Windows) - Quickly find and download pictures from Web sites.
AiS
Watermark Pictures Protector (Free to Try,
$30 to Buy, Windows) - Do you create a computer's pictures?
Do you want to protect your copyrights? The easiest
way is use of AiS Watermark Pictures Protector.
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Art Directors Toolkit (Free to Try, $40 to Buy, Mac/Windows) - Designing without ADT is like doing math without a calculator. Save time and concentrate on design with ADT's utilities.
Bersoft Image Measurement (Free to Try, $399 to Buy, Windows) - supports image analysis functions that include gray scale and 24 bits color measurements: angle, distance, perimeter, area, point, line, pixel profile, array/band analyzer, and histogram (from images or selections) with statistics that calculate basic statistics (count, mean, median, minimum, maximum, range, variance, standard deviation, standard error, coefficient of variation, skew and kurtosis) and frequencies.
BoardMaster Storyboard and Timing Software(Free to Try - Windows) - is designed specifically for the development of storyboards.
Castoway (Free to Try, $70 to Buy, Mac / Windows) - is an easy-to-use book design calculator. Quickly estimate books, magazines, and any document, regardless of complexity. Click on the links below for more information.
Color Consultant Pro (Free to Try, $15 to Buy, Mac/Windows) - Become a color expert by creating colors palettes based on tried and true color schemes. Colors/palettes can be exported or copied and pasted into your graphics applications.
ColorImpact (Free to Try, $45 to Buy, Windows) - - is a professional tool for creating harmonious color combinations.
Color Pick 1.0 (Free to Try, $15 to Buy, Windows) - is your beneficial attendant for all kinds of desktop and designwork: Get HEXA-, RGB, CMYK-, HSB colorcodes in seconds! Pick up any colors on your desktop and save your color pallettes as *.plt and *.act ... Save and manage your own created color pallettes for Photoshop and other known Tools.
ColorPicker (Free to Try, $12 to Buy, Windows) is a smart color-selecting tool that allows you to select a color from anywhere on the screen. It shows you the color code in different formats: RGB, HTML, Delphi, C++(WinAPI), VB,VF .
Color Pilot™ (Free to Try, $30 to Buy, Windows) - for quick and easy color correction.
Color Schemes (Free to Try, $23 to Buy, Windows) - If you don't have more time to study the theory of match color and don't want to pay too much to get help from specialist, Color Schemes is your best choice. Color Schemes is a database of color schemes in common use. You can inquire about color schemes at anytime.
ColorStylist (Free to Try, $16 to Buy, Windows) - - ColorStylist is a color-design and educational tool for everyone. Try this essential tool today.
CopyNook 1.09 (Free to Try, $20 to Buy, Windows) - This program is designed to work as a feature-rich copy machine. It is simple yet powerful - preserving the simplicity of getting copies with only one button, it allows you to improve the image before you print it. Moreover, after getting an image from a scanner or digital camera, or loading your existing picture, you can also send it to friends by E-mail or even publish on the Web.
ImageMan (Free to Try, $5 to Buy, Mac) - A Contextual Menu Module (CMM) that allows you to do basic rotating and scaling of images right in the finder. Great for reducing the size of pictures before posting them on websites or rotating pictures that were taken in "portrait" orientation (i.e. with the camera vertical instead of horizontal) so they can be viewed in the proper orientation.
Image
Searcher PRO 0.9 (Free to Try, $17 to Buy, Windows) - is a powerful finder tool that lets you locate
image files no matter how scattered they are on your
hard drive. It can be set to locate up to 33 image file
types. Apart from the main search feature, Image Searcher PRO
can be effectively used as an image viewer (both full-size
images and thumbnails) and a slide show generator.
Interface
Improvers (Free to Try, $20 to Buy, Windows)
There is never enough screen space for graphic design.
Tools from this package improve Adobe and Macromedia
software interface, conveniently making tool windows
hide when you don't need them, clearing up the screen
for your work, and emerge automatically when you need
them.
JotSmart (Free to Try, $20 to Buy, Windows) - allows you to select and capture virtually any information that appears on your computer monitor. You can mark-up those areas using graphic highlights, text notes and voice messages and then, with a single button, send this information to your e-mail program.
MacroRecorder (Free to Try, $16 to Buy, Windows) is a sound recording program. It records sound generated, or requested, by other computer programs, such as RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, Quick Time,WinAmp, and many others. The resulting files are saved in wave-file , MP3-file format.
Modjex Brander (Free to Try, $20 to Buy, Windows) - Brander will brand all the images in a directory with your text.
OPal v1.95 (Free to Try, $10 to Buy, Windows) - Manipulate and capture the system color palette. Look up the color and index of any pixel on the desktop.
PhotoNoter (Free to Try, $10 to Buy, Windows) - is the most powerful and most interesting photo annotating software.
Photo Watermark (Free to Try, $40 to Buy, Windows) - Watermark all your digital photos with texts, graphics, auto fields (date picture taken, file name, camera model and camera settings)
PhotoZipper (Free to Try, $15 to Buy, Windows) - can help you ¡°pack¡± one or group of pictures to a self-run program easily. Exempting from the troubles of different photo view software, you can share them with your friends through E-mail. And you can use it to make lantern slides for demonstration¡¢lecture and product display.
Pixel Ruler (Free - Windows) - Know the exact size and position of any element on your screen with Mioplanet Pixel Ruler.
Pixie (Free to Try, $25 to Buy, Windows) - is an extremely easy-to-use, small and effective colour picker designed especially to meet the needs of Webmasters and Designers.
PortfolioWall - winner of Computer Graphics World innovative product of the year 2001, is a revolutionary technology that enables teams to view, share, annotate, manage and make decisions on visual digital assets more effectively than ever before.
Screen Calipers (Free to Try, $15 to Buy, Windows) - Measure any object on the screen, quickly and easily with the Screen Calipers.
Simply Pictures (Free to Try, $20 to Buy, Windows) - can view any image or text files, even video files in your folders. You can also see them in a slideshow, or thumbnails. You can easily and quickly create web pages of all your pictures with just a few clicks of the mouse.
The Spyder Photo Suite PRO (Free to Try, $425 to Buy, Mac) - bundle calibrates your monitor with the highly acclaimed Spyder with OptiCAL™.
Super Color Picker (Free to Try, $20 to Buy, Windows) - Pick color of any point from your screen and get its color code.
SwitchBlade (Free to Try, $16 to Buy, Windows) - Protect the images on your site and copyright them at the same time using SwitchBlade. Slice and protect your images today!
Xproof (Free to Try, $29 to Buy, Mac) - Finally, designers have a tool that creates real-time side by side color comparisons of electronic media. Whether you are creating images, animations, web sites or digital video projects, Xproof does the work and you see results immediately.
With Adobe recently launching their online version of Adobe Photoshop - Adobe Photoshop Express - you might be wondering if there are other quality image editors online. You don't have to wonder anymore. We have put together a list of more than 30 web-based picture editors that are great alternatives to Photoshop Express. I am not saying that any of these online image editing tools are better than Photoshop Express, but they are all quality tools that can be used to create great image effects.
We have set up a script to take the freelance design jobs from dozens of freelance sites, graphic design forums, web design forums, job boards, and graphic design job sites. This script is set to automatically update this job board several times a day so you can be assured that you are looking at regularly updated freelance graphic design and web design projects on this aggregator.
I get questions about fonts all the time and I wanted to write a post that would help many of you. Today I am answering many questions about fonts that will help you in your daily graphic design tasks.
You will find that a lot of these tools can automate your graphic design process by actually doing the tedious repetitive tasks that slow you down. There are a ton of tools listed here, so make sure to bookmark this page.
Logo Design Process of Inspirational Graphic Designer Jon Sandruck Do you want to learn about the logo design process from a logo designer who is going to have two of his logos to be included in the inspirational Logo Lounge 5? Then please welcome the very talented Jon Sandruck. Today Jon Sandruck is going to detail [...]
I have collected more than a dozen of the coolest shopping bags that I have ever seen. The creativity that was put into designing these bags could be put towards any graphic design project, and is not only limited to shopping bag design. These graphic designers thought outside the box (or bag in this situation) and I would love to have you submit some designs that you think showcase the same creative thinking (designing).
If you are a Photoshop guru, then you are probably always on the lookout for new free Photoshop stuff. Well, we try to do that legwork for you. On this page you will find a nice roundup of free Photoshop pattern sites. Click through to these sites and download some of those free patterns. Have fun.
A collection of Typography blogs & resources, Typography articles, Typography showcases, and Typography tools and then categorized them for you in this article.
I have collected the top Photoshop Logo Design tutorials online and listed them for you below. There are also plenty of Web 2.0 Logo Design tutorials as well.
This part II of a never-ending series of the coolest outside ads, billboards, and public advertising.
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i can't believe it.. i'm in.
Up For Grabs: Adobe CS2
I Get to Go Shopping! Large Format Printer Help
Logo and website for new initiative: Orangutan Land Trust
Logo for Orangutan-Friendly Palm Oil Required
I want to be Sedated...
"Selling" your design
how lengthen dog tail into font script ?
Where to get these type of floral elements?
Wings of Compassion
Web Design Critique
My second Flash site
Help with product pricing
Identity system pricing?
A little help with a website layout
6 Million Downloadable Clipart Images for Graphic Designers
The Clipart.com collection of more than 10 million royalty-free clipart images, photos, illustrations, fonts, sounds and Web graphics provides creative professionals with the most choice at the best price. With a Clipart.com subscription, you pay one fee and download what you need.
Sep 1Huge Roundup of Typography Blogs, Resources, Articles, Galleries, & Tools
A collection of Typography blogs & resources, Typography articles, Typography showcases, and Typography tools and then categorized them for you in this article.
May 27A New and More Accurate Search Engine for Finding Free Clipart
As graphic designers, we are always on the hunt for quality free clipart images to use in our designs. The problem is that often searching for clipart often brings back very inaccurate search results. Well, thanks to one of my friends, I have found a new site called Find Free Clipart which will make my life much easier the next time I search for clipart online.
Apr 26Podcast for Freelance Graphic Designers
Lindsay Marsh, owner of Marsh Graphic Design has created several audio and video podcasts she calls the Freelancer. They cover various topics related to the freelance graphic designer. She plans on doing these pretty regularly and from what we see there is a lot of potential here. I suggest you check them out. The [...]
Mar 7Hot in Graphic Design - A Superb Guide to Designing With Black
A Superb Guide to Designing With Black Many of the people who visit All Graphic Design are Graphic Designers and many of you are Web Designers. If you are a Graphic Designer, than you most likely know that many things can go wrong when sending your files to be printed. For one thing, colors never look [...]
Mar 6Hot in Graphic Design - Find Out if You are a Lousy, No Good Graphic Designer
Find Out if You are a Lousy, No Good Graphic Designer Hey, I bet you think you are the best Graphic Designer around, don't you?! Well, if you are brave enough, you should take a look at an article which will hit you where it hurts (if you are doing any of the 13 tell tale [...]
Mar 5Hot in Graphic Design - Examples of Good Graphic Design Portfolios
Examples of Good Graphic Design Portfolios This is a post on Astheria Design Blog that is in response to a previous post called "?My Last Portfolio Sucked, Yours Might Too"?. This articles includes pictures and links to Design portfolios that were designed with a goal in mind. All of these design portfolios have one thing in [...]
Mar 5Hot in Graphic Design - Some Online Printing Services I?ve Used
Some Online Printing Services I've Used - Personal Commercial Printers Review Whether you are a Graphic Designer or a Web Designer, we all need to use commercial printing services every once in a while. All freelancers, in fact, need to use printing services to print items such as business cards, printing labels, envelopes, letterhead, marketing materials, [...]
Feb 29Hot in Graphic Design - Should Graphic Designers Use Design Elements in Their Resume?
Should Graphic Designers Use Design Elements in Their Resume? I have always been told that utilizing design within a resume is the wrong thing to do, Graphic Designer or not. So when I saw this article title, it caught my eye and I had to read more. However, the author of this article doesn't agree with [...]
Feb 29Hot in Graphic Design - List of 120+ Free Photoshop Actions for Cool Designs
List of 120+ Free Adobe Photoshop Actions for Cool Designs I was excited when I found this huge list of free Adobe Photoshop actions, and I am guessing that you will be excited as well. Actions are the best way to speed up Photoshop tasks that you do on a regular basis, such as change an [...]
Feb 29Hot in Graphic Design - Logo Design Trends for 2008
Logo Design Trends for Graphic Designers in 2008 As a Graphic Designer, you might not think that trends are important when it comes to designing a logo. However, as you can see if you look at design archives, the art of Graphic Design changes. As a designer, you will need to keep on top of these [...]
Website Redesign for Real Estate Resourc
Hi all, My website needs facelifting. This is a real estate resource similar to Trulia. The purpose of redesign is to give our site the modern look and keep it up to the "international web design st? Client is in Kyiv,
Package Design for Warehouse Club Produc
We prefer to work with local Tucson, AZ resource. My Industry: Stationery Review of current package design for Warehouse Club Stationery set. Recommend and prepare design improvements. ? Client is in Tucson, AZ
Website Redesign for Vehicle Performance
Local to Houston area, please. I am look for a designer to work with to refresh and update the company website. The site is about 20 pages currently, will probably need to add more. I don't have any ? Client is in Houston, TX
Website Redesign for a Financial Service
Number of pages (approx): 5-6 pages My Industry: Financial Services We currently have somewhat of a site listed at the URL provided. However, before we advertise, we would like a more professional s? Client is in Mcdonough, GA
Redesign website and logo for Party Serv
Number of pages (approx): 6? My Industry: childrens entertainment The site is 3 years old. It was a cheap and cheerful site that served as a simple presence to highlight the birthday parties. Sin? Client is in Dublin 15,
Web Design: Residential Remodeling
I have pictures and would like a web page that customers can go to so they can view our work. Also would like information about our company and references etc. Once the web page is completed I can upd? Client is in Hayward, CA
Motion Designer After Effects Expert Nee
Hi I`m looking for an After Effects / Flash expert to give me three different quotes. Quote 1 I already have this After Effects Project, and I can send to you. But how much just to customize this p? Client is in Washington, DC
One Page Web Design for Entertainment
Number of pages (approx): 1 basic layout with reusable content for websites / possibly a logo My Industry: Entertainment I need a one page website design that can be reused for myspace as well. No f? Client is in Poplar Bluff, MO